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Impossible Robotics<\/a> \u2013 the team of Dutch students who built a robot to compete in the 2017 FIRST<\/em> Robotics <\/a>STEAMWORKS competition \u2013 spent a great couple of weeks in Florida!<\/p>\n

FIRST<\/em> Robotics is a not-for-profit organisation whose world-vision is to find, encourage and enable the young engineers of the future. For 25 years they have been running exciting game-based competitions which encourage talented students to be the best they can.<\/p>\n

Yet their programmes are not cut-throat! At the same time as working to build their own all-conquering robot, students are awarded points for helping competing teams to overcome problems encountered whilst building\u00a0their <\/i>robots; that way students will learn most. The games are highly-competitive – yet they’re held in an atmosphere which is fun, collaborative, supportive, and friendly \u2013 the ideal atmosphere, in fact, for creativity to thrive!<\/p>\n

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FIRST<\/em> Robotics say: \u201cMost of the time you will fail but you will also occasionally succeed. These occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>Perhaps it was the power of these words that carried the Impossible Robotics team from failure to success?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Their first practise day didn’t go according to plan \u2013 a safety problem with their robot’s bumpers meant it didn’t pass the official inspection. Working late into the night, and lacking the required materials, they improvised a new bumper. First thing next morning it was sent for inspection – and passed!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

During the first and second matches they employed their robot in a defensive role \u2013 hindering the opposing team’s robots. They used the time between matches to improve their robot. Their ultimate goal was to endow it with an ability to climb a rope \u00a0…which in terms of winning points is a very valuable asset. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With the collaborative help of other teams, particularly Florida-based Tech-Tiger Robotics 1251 they finally achieved their goal and could scarcely wait for the next match so that they could watch it perform!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Defeat pulled from the jaws of Victory<\/h3>\n

As luck would have it, owing to human-error, when the Impossible Robotics team’s great opportunity arrived the robot wasn’t able to climb a rope – because no one had thrown a rope down for it to climb! Worse was to follow: in the next match their robot didn’t work at all! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Victory pulled from the jaws of Defeat<\/h3>\n

When the last match came their robot was performing at its very best. During the last thirty seconds of the game – the time when the robots that <\/span><\/span><\/span>can <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>climb do – the Impossible Robotics team rushed their robot toward the waiting rope \u2013 and Hurrah! …it climbed!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Energy and persistence conquer all things<\/em>.<\/em> Benjamin Franklin.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Victron Energy are sponsors to Impossible Robotics –\u00a0<\/em>we are proud to encourage tomorrow’s engineering talent.<\/p>\n

Justin Tyers<\/a><\/p>\n

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